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Bangladeshi infra: cosmic ambitions
Asia PacificBangladesh is making headway on some of its Vision 2121 targets, but the country has been slow to bridge its yawning infrastructure investment gap
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India solar: targets and reality
Renewables Asia PacificOne of the world’s fastest growing renewables markets has ambitious goals and a government upbeat on meeting them. But is New Delhi too optimistic?
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The NEG: Certainty in Australia at last?
Renewables Asia PacificThe Australian renewables industry has been craving regulatory certainty. A solution could finally be close, with an energy council session scheduled for 10 August (2018) to vote on the final design of the Federal Government’s new policy – the National Energy Guarantee (NEG). But market participants have concerns over onerous complexity, pervasive long-term policy uncertainty and its restrained r
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1MDB: the reckoning
Oil & Gas Asia PacificThe 1Malaysia Development scandal that swept the opposition into power is turning into a reckoning for $22 billion worth of China-backed infrastructure projects
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Indonesia talks the PPP talk
Power Asia PacificIndonesia's National Development Planning Agency recently announced that it has committed $3.4 billion in state funds for infrastructure investment in 2019
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Belt & Road: China's Malacca dilemma
Transport Asia PacificOnce the key pillar of China’s Belt & Road initiative, the Malaysian opposition’s election victory in May has raised questions about Beijing’s strategy going forward
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Asia green bonds: looking ahead
Renewables Asia PacificFinancing of renewables across the Asia Pacific has so far been dominated by commercial and multilateral banks. But regional bond investors are showing interest in green bonds and finance – fuelling hopes for the potential growth of capital market financing solutions
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Rosy outlook for Indian oil refineries
Oil & Gas Asia PacificIndia recently unveiled plans to set up the world’s largest refinery at Babulwadi, Taluka Rajpur in Ratnagiri district. The project is expected to cost around $40 billion and have a refining capacity of 60 million tonnes per annum
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Malaysia: to HSR or not to HSR
Transport Asia PacificMalaysia's new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s pledge to review all foreign contracts and projects has those involved in the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail project resigned to yet another delay. But the market remains optimistic that the deal will be approved, and the wait will be rewarded with a more transparent tender process
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Vietnam’s transport infrastructure
Transport Asia PacificIt may not be one of the largest economies in Asia, but Vietnam has made a strong commitment to infrastructure spending in recent years
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Oil majors – shuffling along the Road to Damascus
Oil & Gas Asia PacificIn a volte-face that’s enough to make a North Korean dictator blush, the oil majors are continuing to trip over their feet in a bid to reinvent themselves as good guys, having spent the last century-plus playing the black-hat cowboy
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Rantau Dedap geothermal, Indonesia
Renewables Asia PacificIt took four years for the sponsors of the Rantau Dedap geothermal power plant to reach financial close on the $700 million project in South Sumatra, Indonesia
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Power push in Bangladesh
Power Asia PacificBangladesh has the potential for significant economic growth but still suffers from huge unmet power demand. The country is trying to address this power deficit by investing in renewables and conventional power sources
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Australia: Sydney congestion
Transport Asia PacificInfrastructure Australia's priority list for 2018 is focusing on resolving congestion in Sydney, the country’s largest city
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Samurai loans – new master for Ronin lenders
Water Asia PacificA wind of change is sweeping the Australian financing market with MUFG closing syndication on its second refi of a major piece of availability-based infrastructure today, leveraging the fearsome might of Samurai lenders
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Belt and Road: the next phase
Asia PacificChina is looking to shift the funding strategy for its Belt and Road initiative away from government loans and towards more diversified sources of financing
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Acquisition of 70% of ENGIE E&P International
Oil & Gas Asia PacificPrivate equity-backed operators have poured billions of dollars into the North Sea upstream industry over the last 18 months. Neptune Energy’s first deal to buy out ENGIE's portfolio seals the entry of another independent, but is likely to be the last in a flurry of sales of mega-sized upstream portfolios by majors
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Road to hell paved with burning coal…
Power Asia PacificLooking at the 2017 IJ League Tables, one thing leaps off the page – the number of coal-fired power plants that made it to financial close. That’s a surprising stat to pick out at first glance, and leaves you thinking that surely – in this increasingly sustainable world – involvement in such deals must be fairly challenging for lenders...
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Aussie renewables rules
Renewables Asia PacificAustralia’s Minister for Energy and the Environment Josh Frydenberg this week insisted that Australia will hit its 2020 target of 33,500GWh of renewable energy, but that 6,000MW of new renewable capacity must be built by the end of 2019